126 NOTE: GOLDFINCH AT SKIPWITH. 
In the next 167 pages, Mr. A. J. Stuart-Wortley has gone most 
exhaustively into the whole subject of killing Partridges in the most 
scientific and sportsmanlike manner, his remarks being illustrated 
by numerous diagrams. Walking up, driving, shooting with a kite, 
the proper porportion of ground stock to be left at the end of the 
season, wonderful and historic records of heavy bags, Sptetere 
nothing has been omitted in these pleasant pages ; and now havi 
killed our bird, Mr. Saintsbury finishes the volume with uid 
excellent advice as to the best means of preparing it for the table, 
the mere perusal of which makes our mouth water. There is, we 
consider, no greater test of a thorough cook than the style in which 
winged game and wild fowl is sent up, with all the necessary accom- 
paniments in harmony. But, alas! in these degenerate days how 
very frequently is it that with these excellent persons high wages and 
incompetency march hand in hand, and that although the gods send 
good food, the devil finds the cooks. It should ever be borne in 
mind that the cooking of game is a delicate and scientific operation 
to be conducted with due caution and close attention before an 
open fire, and not left to take care of itself within the oven of 
a modern close range. 
Not the least * spielen feature in this volume are the numerous 
illustrations by Mr. A. J. Stuart-Wortley, Mr. A. Thornburn, and 
Mr.’ C. ymper. The volume, at the very moderate price it is 
issued at, is well worth buying for these alone. So exquisitely are 
they drawn and engraved, that we made up our mind at once to buy 
each as it appeared, and place them on our shelves as things of 
beauty and a joy for ever, not alone to ourselves, but to those who 
follow after, happy memorials of the dear old days spent on stubble 
and in woodland, and now for ever passed beyond recall.—J. C. 
NOTE—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Goldfinch, etc., near Skipwith Common, Yorkshire.—Whilst walki 
the high ond between Cliffe and Skipwith Common on the morning of the 8th Jan., + 
1894, about Ic a.m., I noticed a male Goldfinch (Carduelis elegans) in splendid 
plumage, busily flitting along from one thistle stem to another, bilge ground at 
the time was thickly cove = snow. It Pcsntvet ‘allowed me to approach 
within some three or four of it, and despite the severity of the morning 
I took advantage of this familiarity to o e its sprightly movements for some 
enty minutes. tho have been a close o wt ta of nature in very many 
districts in Yorkshire, and 9 gta y in the rg aan ood of York, for the past 
twenty years, this was the first occasion I had had of seeing C. elegans i in a state 
of nature. The other birds of interest I noticed during my walk were " apg oe 
and one female Bullfinch (Pyrrhula gerepes), ® a Hates pay of Wild Ducks (Avas 
Soscas), a small party of Cole ¢ Tits ts (Parus icus), and several docks of Field- 
fares | Socbas pilaris).— WILLIAM fatrlag "Vouk: 23rd plese 1894. 
Naturalist, 
